{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1997-04-04","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2019-08-30","city":"ALBUQUERQUE","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-25","maker":"Balloon Works","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BALLOON WORKS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1050111","mode_s_code":"50707522","mode_s_hex":"A38F52","model":"FIREFLY 8B-15","n_number":"N32867","name":"HOOPER KIRK M","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N32867 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 30, 2019 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 4, 1997.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Hooper Kirk M, an individual, certificate issued August 30, 2019, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 4, 1997, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-521 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N32867 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3L-65 (serial 5676, cancelled January 14, 1972). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N32867. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"F8B-521","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NM","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"628 LONE PINE DR SW","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00816501","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N32867","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1996,"zip":"871215258"}